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iHateSpam | 
 enlarge | From: Sunbelt Software
Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.79
You Save: $11.20 (37%)
New (3) Used (3) from $15.57
Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 4649
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows NT
MPN: BP00IHS
Model: BP00IHS
UPC: 855717000009
EAN: 0855717000009
ASIN: B00006RZ9P
Release Date: October 21, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Ultimate Weapons Against Junk E-Mail -- Eliminate Annoying SPAM! Filter those irritating, unsolicited e-mail messages from your in-box. The utility runs inside Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, so you avoid the hassle of running a separate program. Hate Spam? Get iHateSpam!
Amazon.com Review
If you find yourself deleting most of the e-mails in your inbox without even reading them, iHateSpam may just be the program you need. Available for users of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, this utility is great for personal users, but may not always be appropriate for business use. iHateSpam takes only a few moments to install, but the setup process can be somewhat time-consuming. After installation, iHateSpam mines your Outlook contacts and any folders you choose to look for e-mail addresses you do not consider to be spam. It then creates a "friends" list so all the e-mails you do want to receive will be left untouched by the program. Conversely, iHateSpam also has an "enemies" list to which you can add unwanted e-mails that you receive and the sending addresses will be blocked by iHateSpam. You can also bounce an e-mail back to the sender, which includes a message saying that your addresses is unavailable, thus tricking the sender into deleting your e-mail address from their database. While all of these features seem attractive in theory, we found that the program has some drawbacks in actual use. First, the setup process becomes redundant for the person who uses Outlook for business purposes. It is extremely difficult and time-consuming to manage a friends list when you receive and send e-mails to hundreds of coworkers and associates. Further, creating an enemies list becomes a delicate process as you do not want to inadvertently have a new customer or contact be labeled as an enemy, even though you have not received e-mail from them before. All in all, iHateSpam would most likely work very well for someone who uses Outlook for personal e-mails only and who is merely trying to get rid of the junk so they can keep in touch with their friends and family. But for anyone who is already managing a wide database of contacts, it creates more trouble than it removes. --Kendra Hayden
Amazon.com Product Description
iHateSpam keeps unsolicited e-mails from crowding your inbox. Simply install the program on a PC running Outlook or Outlook Express, and you're done. There's no configuration necessary. The Outlook version uses spam analysis routines to check each incoming e-mail and tosses the spam into a SPAM folder under your inbox. The Outlook Express version creates message to hurl spam into your Deleted folder. You can browse through the suspected spam to make sure that iHateSpam didn't toss out an important message, or to see if there's an offer you're actually interested in. iHateSpam automatically updates itself whenever new spam rules are available in a hands-off operation that works through firewalls.
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 Poorly Excecuted Software March 20, 2007
Kids Europe (Massachusetts)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I used this software for a year thinking I was doing the world a favor by waiting for it to bounce spam back to the senders, but I have found that it is a good idea with poor execution.
Problems include:
- Causes Outlook to fault and Outlook is always asking me if it can disable it.
- Sloooooow updates. The update process takes about half an hour and it slows my not-too-old computer to a halt.
- Spawns many processes that use up all my computer's memory. If I look at the task manager when my computer is slow, I see eight or more IHS processes running (80-120k), most of which are the largest programs running. I have attempted to give them a low priority, but it doesn't help.
- I think it is just a poorly developed program. I can close Outlook but IHS never shuts down. Great big program running all the time doing nothing but eating up my computer memory. If it were well behaved, I would think it would shut itself down with Outlook.
- Supposed to put people I send mail to in the "friends" list and that doesn't work ever, at all.
- Whenever I upgraded, I would have problems and the nice support people would tell me to cclean out all my saved filters so I would have to start all over.
- Those saved filters seem to eventually confuse themselves, so you can't just accummulate them because once they stop working, then the whole program gets confused, keeps spam and quarantines the good stuff.
- The program bounces mail back but the work that demands of my computer is huge and really slows things down. I can't figure out how to turn that bounce off.
I've pointed out these issues to their support and they tell me to reinstall, but that hasn't worked the two times I've tried it. So, I've given up on IHS. Too bad.
Only catches half the spam December 19, 2003
Michael (Paris, France)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This software only catches half the spam I get. When it misses emails with text such as "Banned government CD" I have to wonder if they guys are updating their software at all.
 The Best One Yet! December 3, 2003
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a small business owner, my inbox used to receive a constent flow of Spam, that is until I installed "I HATE SPAM".
I have tried other products before, but this one is easy to use, and does actually work.
I Despise I Hate Spam! November 21, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought and installed I Hate Spam on Outlook Express. In spite of careful setting of filters, it continues to place good mail in 'Deleted' and put garbage in my 'Inbox'. But, that is not the worst of it!! I have uninstalled it from my computer and it CONTINUES to interfere with my email and delete my good mail. I CAN'T GET RID OF IT!! I Hate "I Hate Spam".
 Nice idea, but it doesn't work November 13, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I uninstalled this program because I ended up spending more time dealing with it than it took simply to delete spam messages every morning. It is not capable of detecting messages with forged headers and does not provide an option for automatically deleting messages from foreign countries, which constitute a tremendous amount of the spam I receive.
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